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Of all the kinds of life exchanged when the Old and New Worlds met, which of the following had the greatest impact?

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domesticated animals
new crops
religion
germs and disease

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It would be "germs and disease" that had the greatest impact when the Old and New Worlds met, since the Natives in the New World were not immune to the germs that the Europeans were carrying--leading thousands of Natives to be killed. 
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